Ravello Music Festival
Jul - Sep 2026
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“The magical garden of Klingsor is found!” These words were pronounced by Richard Wagner in 1880 when he walked into the garden of Villa Rufolo in Ravello, near Amalfi. The garden is a natural terrace offering a breathtaking landscape over the whole Costiera Amalfitana. Even the Tuscan writer Giovanni Boccaccio wrote centuries ago: “This is the most pleasant region in Italy, a coast dotted by small towns, gardens and fountains…” In his masterpiece “Decameron” Boccaccio talks passionately about the beauty of Ravello, about his charm, sea, sky, pines, olive groves.
Hence the inspiration, in 1953, to found the first Musical Festival of Ravello, one of Europe’s most ancient musical festivals. The magic of this Festival is due both to the beauty of landscape and the natural location that, like a cloud in the sky, leans 15 meters high on the rock. On this breathtaking stage the best artists and the best orchestras meet every year in an enchanting harmony of art and music.
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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra
Conductor: Daniele Gatti
Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica”
6:00 PM: Pre-concert talk
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
Il Pomo d’Oro
Cello: Giovanni Sollima
Zappa & Zappa
Works by Francesco Zappa, Frank Zappa, Giovanni Sollima, Vanni Moretto
6:00 PM: Pre-concert talk
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
Fresco, for five orchestras in space
“Città di Minori” Award-Winning Concert Band
Conductor: Gioacchino Mansi
“Città di Salerno” Historic Grand Concert Band
Conductor: Rosario Barbarulo
“Città di Sorrento” Concert Band
Conductor: Giuseppe Maresca
“Città di Fisciano” Grand Concert Band
Conductor: Angelo Decarluccio
“Città di Montecorvino Rovella” School and Band Association
Conductor: Gabriella Fasulo
Staging Coordinator: Manuel Renga
Musical Director: Luca Francesconi
📍 Piazza Duomo
Ensemble of the Milan Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Luca Francesconi
Luca Francesconi, Risonanze d’Orfeo
📍 Church of San Giovanni del Toro
Le Concert des Nations / La Capella Reial de Catalunya – L’Orfeo
Conductor: Jordi Savall
Principal Cast: Mauro Borgioni, Elionor Martínez, Sara Mingardo, Marianne Beate Kielland, Salvatore Mario Vitale, Furio Zanasi
Claudio Monteverdi, L’Orfeo (in concert version)
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
Bucharest National Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Jinga
Violin: Alexandru Tomescu
George Enescu, Romanian Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 11
Niccolò Paganini, Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 7 “La campanella”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
Pygmalion Ensemble
Conductor: Raphaël Pichon
Baritone: Stéphane Degout
Franz Schubert, Der Doppelgänger, D 957;
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D 583;
Nacht und Träume, D 827;
Symphony No. 8, D 759 “Unfinished”
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 1, Op. 68
6:00 PM: Pre-concert talk
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
World of Dance
Piano: Jan Lisiecki
Works by Bohuslav Martinů, Manuel de Falla, Karol Szymanowski, Franz Schubert, Béla Bartók, Alberto Ginastera, Fryderyk Chopin, Johannes Brahms, Astor Piazzolla, Isaac Albéniz
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Emmanuel Tjeknavorian
Aram Khachaturian, Selections from the Gayaneh ballet suites
Modest Mussorgsky / Maurice Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition
6:00 PM: Pre-concert talk
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
Piccinni and Gluck: One Crown for Two
by Valerio Cappelli
Actor: Sergio Rubini; Soprano: Francesca Pia Vitale; Piano: Luca Gorla
Music by Niccolò Piccinni
In collaboration with the Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari and Angelo Tumminelli (Prima International Company)
📍 Villa Rufolo, Knights’ Hall
Dresdner Festspielorchester & Concerto Köln
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Richard Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Prologue and Act I (in concert version)
6:00 PM: Pre-concert talk
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
Rita Marcotulli Ensemble Under 29 but me
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
Homage to Miles
Rick Margitza, Jeff Ballard, Dario Deidda, Roberto Tarenzi, Domenico Sanna, Carlo Fimiani
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
“Giuseppe Verdi” Philharmonic Orchestra of Salerno – Dawn Concert
Conductor: Alessandro Palumbo
Georges Bizet, Carmen Suites Nos. 1 and 2
Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 8, Op. 88
Franz Liszt, Les préludes, S. 97
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
“George Enescu” Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Robert Treviño
George Enescu, Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 11
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2, Op. 27
6:00 PM: Pre-concert talk
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
Pianist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
The Complete Solo Piano Works of Maurice Ravel
📍 Villa Rufolo, Knights’ Hall
Pianist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
The Complete Solo Piano Works of Maurice Ravel
📍 Villa Rufolo, Knights’ Hall
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Conductor: Philippe Jordan
Richard Wagner, Parsifal: Prelude
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 4 “Romantic”
6:00 PM: Pre-concert talk
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
The Constellation Choir and Orchestra
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Symphony No. 2, Op. 52 “Lobgesang”
6:00 PM: Pre-concert talk
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
Freiburger Barockorchester
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Violin: Isabelle Faust
Robert Schumann, Violin Concerto, Op. posth.
Symphony No. 2, Op. 61
6:00 PM: Pre-concert talk
📍 Belvedere of Villa Rufolo
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